Announcements

Introduction and Names

Treasurer's Report

If you made a donation in 2009 and want a receipt for tax purposes, send an email to treasurer@noisebridge.net with your full name, mailing address, the item or amount donated (and if money, the method), and the date of the donation.

Amount in bank: $15k

There are 5 members who are three or more months late.
Separate from them:

Number of members in good standing: 77

Number of members late for December: 11

Number of members late for January: 65

If all late dues were paid in full, at $40 each, we would have $4,880.

Very brief primer on Noisebridge consensus process

There is a consensus process... Only do something if all members are comfortable with it.

Membership binder

(Name?): He likes making shit. He likes being around people who make shit. He also likes unmaking stuff.

What's Going On at Noisebridge

If you bought something and then gave it to Noisebridge (for a project, or 'cause you're awesome) it might be a donation in kind. Talk to the treasurer.

Project Updates

2169 Mission

Noisecloud

Noisebridge now has server power available. To find out more about the server access, ask Dr. Jesus.

26C3 debrief

Discussion items

Shall we randomize the logo displayed on the Noisebridge Wiki (our primary website) rather than continuing in the general theme of the readily identifiable logo we've been using to date?
If so:

How do we want to handle the NB logo on the wiki?

Notes from mailing list discussion

Randomizer function

Need better randomizer function

Possible wiki configurations:

Status quo (orig black and red circuit-like logo on all pages)

Randomizer from pool on all pages

Randomizer from pool on all internal pages, orig logo on index

Some other variant of mixed logos, may require someone committing to code up the implementation

Possible pool handling:

Public

Public upload somewhere, added to pool by ops

Public upload somewhere, some other approval method

Noisebridge and Wikileaks - 501(c)(3) Fiscal Sponsorship

Wikileaks has very little presence in the United States. If they were to be able to take donations as a charitable organization, they would be able to generate a great deal more in donations from US donors.

The benefit to Noisebridge would be financial, as well as supporting a good cause. It is customary in these relationships that the sponsoring organization keep 10% of all donations. This would be a contractual arrangement which we would need our lawyers to draw up.

It is common arrangement in the art community that organizations that have a charitable designation "sponsor" organizations that are either too small or unable to manage the issues themselves. The Oakland Opera is a fiscal sponsor for NIMBY, SOMArts is a fiscal sponsor for the Flaming Lotus Girls. NIMBY is an interesting case, as they've faced all sorts of persecution, yet the Oakland Opera has seen none of it.

Without making any commitments, does it seem like this is something the membership thinks would be a good idea to pursue with our lawyers?

BACE

Mira has expressed interest in using one of the classrooms for meetings (usually also on Tuesdays, so we can all hang out after our respective meetings and learn more about each other) of the bay area community exchange http://www.bace.org & has mentioned perhaps Noisebridge might want to create an account with http://www.timebanks.org to see about making improvements to noisebridge & we can help others with whatever sorts of geeky projects they might be interested in (as we already do :).